Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 19:29:03 -0400
From: "E. Wayles Browne" ewb2[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CORNELL.EDU
Subject: Re: acceptability/grammaticality judgments, please
1. Kim and Dale think that each other is the best.
This is ungrammatical for me, however I am aware that there are
speakers (I call them "loose each-other-ers") for whom the
use of "each other" in subject position of a subordinate
clause is possible. Robert Pirsig is one such person; you
will find a number of examples like this in ZEN AND THE ART OF
MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE.
2. Who does she think said ate the cake?
Ungrammatical.
Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
Morrill Hall, Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.
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